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Now from March eighth, nineteen fifty one, here is the
big New Year's.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. The story you're about to hear is true.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. It's New
Year's Eve and your city and you're on special duty.
Thousands of people crowd downtown streets. One of them is
a killer. Your job them.
Speaker 3: The documentary drama of an actual crime. Well the next
thirty minute. It's in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department.
You will travel step by step on the side of
the law through an actual case transcribed from official police bilence,
from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 4: It was New Year's Eve was cold in Los Angeles.
We were working the night Watch out of Homicide Special Duty.
My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Dad Brown, Chief
of Detectives. My name is Friday. I was on the
way back from dinner and it was eight thirty five
pm when I got to Room forty two Homicide.
Speaker 2: Joe, Hi, Arnie, How was are outside? It's cold? Not
keeping people at home though you check the crowds. Yeah,
and watching her from the window here seems bigger and
last Year's crazy. You're on with Ben and me tonight?
Is that right?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Thought I was gonna have it off. Wife had a
little house party planning everything. No, that's too bad. Maybe
next time, huh. And that's what I said last New
Year's I guess you better start moving. Yeah, where's Ben?
He went down the hall a minute, said he'd be
right back. I better take my top coder. Yeah I
would if I were you. Nothing for us in the book,
is there, Barney? I almost forgot. Jack Conley called having
a little party out of his hospital. Once you were
amero to drop around when you get off, said he
called back.
Speaker 5: Huh all right, Jill, alright, ab I ready, yeah, let
me grab my overcoat.
Speaker 2: I just take back communications. What sports lit up like
a Christmas tree? Just like last year. They're starting off
strong calls, coming in with a dozen.
Speaker 5: I'd like to see it just once, people celebrating New
Year's without tearing up half the town.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 4: I'm a side Friday. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well Barney
just mentioned it. We'll try and make it. You know
how things are tonight, Yeah, we'll fight.
Speaker 2: Sure, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4: Jack Conley been on his way home. He wants us
to drop by his place.
Speaker 2: Well, get off early.
Speaker 5: Not much chance to that. You ready, Yeah, I am
you by? I guess you can't tell. You might get
a break. The crowds are starting in pretty early. Get
chance to break and go home right after midnight? At
you get us off early.
Speaker 4: And that was the idea last year. Wasn't it, Ben, Yeah,
what time did you get off? Six am? Together with
Sergeant Bonnie Luchak, Ben and I left the city Hall
and started the cruise at the southern end of the
Central Area. As any police officer continure, New Year's Eve
for him is one of the hardest working nights in
the year.
Speaker 2: This one was no different for us.
Speaker 4: Within an hour, we'd had more than a half a
dozen calls to check out street fights, drunken driving, disturbing
the peace, the usual complaints that i'd expect to get
when a community of three minion celebrates New Year's Eve.
Ninety three pm. The recruising in the area of Alameda
and Macy Street.
Speaker 6: Unit seventy two are at LCIER in Geneva at three
eleven at three.
Speaker 2: Eleven, KMA three six seven. Roger seventy two.
Speaker 6: Are Units one twelve at eighty three and are Avenue.
See the man keeps the peace GMA three.
Speaker 2: Six stopping him up. That's a big nine, No Joe,
No no thanks, attention.
Speaker 6: All units, All units in the vicinity at East Maine
and Darwin and office in Retail.
Speaker 2: That looks like we got one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, All units in the vicinity at East Maine and
Darwin and opposite needtail M three six seven.
Speaker 2: Yes, we better handle her. The next rue on the
left bend we can go out, Darling. Yeah, I better
call him. Eighty K to control one, eight OK to
control one. That's matter. I guess they're busy. Eighty K
to control one, eight OK to control one.
Speaker 6: Stand by eighty K. Attention all units, all units in
the vicinity. The call to East Maine and dar one
is now a shooting.
Speaker 2: You better push it than him. Got it down to
the floor in the vicinity. The call to East.
Speaker 6: Maine and dar one is now shooting. The call is
now code three K.
Speaker 2: That ship coming up. Yeah, crowd there on the corner,
I guess you better pull up here. Huh, all right?
Come on.
Speaker 5: Over by light pole, Ben Joe man lying on the sidewalk,
want to check the crowd line?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is through here, we get through.
Speaker 7: Excuse me, look, please get back, move back.
Speaker 2: Please come on.
Speaker 5: I wonder if you just move along, move along, move along,
give us a little room to work than Ben.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe, I have a look here. M hm.
Speaker 5: Oh, Jack Conley right, he's dead. His full name is
John Patrick Connley.
Speaker 4: Serial numbers three sixty seven was one of the veteran
officers in Central Homicide. He lay face down on the pavement,
one of his legs straddling the curbstone. He had been
shot twice at the base of his skull. There were
four more bullet wounds in his back. Ben got to
a phone called Homicide and told them what had happened.
Speaker 2: Two dozen Cruiser cars.
Speaker 4: And more than a half a hundred men were immediately
dispatched to the scene of the killing. They circled the
area for a dozen blocks around and started the door
to door search for the killer. Suspicious looking pedestrians were
stopped at every street corner and questioned. Ten thirty PM,
the ambulance arrived and Jack Conley's body was taken to
the morgue along with Thaxter and Bryan from Homicide. Bonnie Luchek,
Ben and I continued checking in the immediate vicinity of
the killing. We found no one who'd admit that they
actually saw the shooting. Half a dozen people in the
crowd told us that they heard the shots and they
saw Conley fall of the pavement. I had also seen
a man standing behind Conley turn and run down the
street right after the shooting.
Speaker 2: No one had followed him.
Speaker 5: The man was described as medium build, wearing a dark
suit and a dark hat.
Speaker 4: That's all I could tell us. Eleven twenty five pm.
Then and I met Bonnie Luke check back at the.
Speaker 5: Car MARTI did you get anything checked out? Every store
in the neighborhood that's opened?
Speaker 2: Not much? How about you?
Speaker 5: It's the same pretty thin Brian and Faster turned up
a newsboy down the street. He told him he saw
the guy in the dark suit running down the street.
You know, thought he saw the guy come out.
Speaker 2: Of this bar here.
Speaker 5: We heard that too, Bunnie. We talked to the bartender.
He doesn't call him man. Le'll say, I almost forgot.
I checked for the office. Missus Conley has been calling
and wants to know where her husband is. You know,
I asked personnel to hold off notifying her something bu
fellas who want to tell her? He knew Conley pretty well,
did you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? A long time family, mayn three kids, you fellas.
Speaker 4: They want to tell her. I'll co person know back.
They can do it, you know, it's all right and
tell her. Eleven forty pm. Then and I got in
the car and hit it out for the home of
the Slean officer Jack Connelly. The house was on Rawson
they Avenue, just a few blocks from where Bentley. He
parked the car and started up the front walk. The
lights were burning in the living rooms in jum what
I said, it's a lousy job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, better try it again. Huh you heard it. Somebody's coming. Hi,
Joe there, we're you. Glad you can make it.
Speaker 6: Everybody's here, Come in, come in. I'm still waiting for
that wandering husband of mine.
Speaker 2: He's not here by midnight. He's going to be in
the dog house for sure. Or here, let me take
your coat. No, buddy, that's all right. I wonder if
we could go back in the kitchen. We'd like to
talk to me. Can't you stay long? No, not too long?
Oh that's too bad. And welcome on back in the kitchen.
I'll get you something. Maybe you can drop back later on.
Jack should be here by then. You'd better be come
on in by the one of you've seen Jack. That's
what we wanted to talk to you about. Betty, what
you want to sit down there? What is it? Joe?
Tell me? Oh, he had an accident. Where is he?
I want to go see him? How about an accident?
Pretty bad? I want to go see him, Joe. If
he's heard, I want to see him. Couldn't be that bad,
could it? Yeah? Oh please, Joe, please not dead?
Speaker 8: Tell me Joe please, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Betty.
Speaker 8: Dear god, oh God.
Speaker 2: I want to give me a hand here, Joe. Yeah. Wow,
she's wet. Is a sheep? Mean? Worse when she comes
to We better get hold of the family doctor.
Speaker 4: Now we're going to have to wait. We'll never get
through now. Huh on lines are probably jam it's midnight.
Oh yeah, happy nire. Twelve thirty am we finally got
ahold of the Conley's family doctor, and he told.
Speaker 2: Us that he'd be over as quickly as possible.
Speaker 4: Some of Bett Conley's relatives at the party said that
they'd look after things till the doctor arrived. Ben and
I left the house and drove back to the scene
of the murder. The house to house check of the
entire area was still going on. There was no trace
at the killer. One thirty am, a low fog moved
in over the city. Traffic began to pin out a little.
The street crowds disappeared. Two am.
Speaker 5: The search went on a little before two thirty, a
patrolman on foot located a taxi cab driver in the
neighborhood who claimed that he'd seen a man answering the killer's.
Speaker 4: Description just after the shooting. Ben and I went down
the street to talk to the driver. He sat behind
the wheel of his cab. It was especially equipped with
shortwave radio to handle calls directly from the taxi company's
dispatch office.
Speaker 5: I got to pass it on for whatever it's worth, Officer.
It happened just a minute or two before I picked
up my last bear.
Speaker 2: What time was that? Do you remember? I remembering too?
Speaker 5: And I got it right here in a way Bill, Yeah, yeah,
here we go, nine forty eight pm. I was parked
just where I am now the same old Stan picked
up a fair rode in the north made of Sotelo,
and I came back here. My cam broke down, lousy distributor.
I've been waiting for the repair truck ever since.
Speaker 2: Well, just what was it that happened before you picked
up that fair here?
Speaker 5: Was it?
Speaker 2: Nine? Is that right? Yeah? Nine forty eight?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, I was going to say it was just
a minute or two before that. I was parked right here.
This guy comes running down the street through the crowd.
He was really running too. Yeah, go ahead, he's almost
past me when he stopped all of a sudden, turned
around and looked at me.
Speaker 2: I thought he wanted a cab, so I opened the
door for him.
Speaker 5: He just looked at me and said never mind, or
something like that, and then he took off down the street.
Speaker 2: Maybe he was just a little goofed up. I don't know.
Can you remember what he looked like?
Speaker 5: All about your bill? I guess medium. He had a
hat on, dark hat, dark suit.
Speaker 2: Did you get a look at his face?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's about twenty eight or thirty, dark complexion.
Speaker 2: Anything else remember about it? No, not for sure. He
looked like a hundred other moods.
Speaker 5: He's down around this neighborhood, just listening to those calls
come in New Year's even.
Speaker 2: I draw a lame cab. Well, nothing else that you
remember about this man that you think might help us him?
Speaker 5: No, you got it all, sergeant, Just act a little queer,
that's all goofed up. Probably did you see which way
he went when he took off right down the street
that way, lost himself in the crowd. I couldn't be
bothered how about when he came running down the street, Torch,
and you happen to notice where he was coming from.
Matter of fact, yeah, that was just after I heard
those gunshots. Of course I didn't know those gunshots.
Speaker 2: Sam.
Speaker 5: Yeah, looked to me like it came out of that
joint up there right near where.
Speaker 2: The cop was shot.
Speaker 5: Which joint was at two twenty eight that bar up there.
Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't much, but it was the only lead
we had to go on.
Speaker 4: Seven persons in the vicinity at the time of the
shooting had volunteered the information that the killer had been
a recent customer at the two twenty eighth club, the
neighborhood tavern. The owner and bartender of the club, or
Ralph Stevens, had been questioned twice that night by different officers,
and he twice denied that there was any possibility that
the killer could have been a patron.
Speaker 2: Of his bar.
Speaker 4: Stevens denying all didn't make any more sense than the
killing itself. We made arrangements to have the cab driver
we interviewed come down to the city Hall to check
through our Muther books for the suspect. By ten am
the next morning, the body of the slain homicide officer
Jack Connelly.
Speaker 2: Had been posted.
Speaker 4: Four bullets were taken from his back, two from the
base of his skull. Russ Camp ran the slugs through ballistics,
where they were identified as having been fired from.
Speaker 2: A thirty eight caliber Colt Special Revolver.
Speaker 4: Eleven am we drove back to the two twenty eight club,
where we talked to some of the customers who'd been
there the night before. Three of them told us that
they'd seen a man answering the general description of the
killer in the bar shortly before the shooting.
Speaker 2: Then and I went back to the stock.
Speaker 4: Room at the rear of the bar and talked to
the owner, Ralph Stevens.
Speaker 2: Look, how long does this thing had to go on? Anyway?
I told you everything I knew last night.
Speaker 5: We know that Stevens doesn't seem to jive with what
the rest of the witnesses saw, though, and maybe you
better take it up with him. I don't know anything
about it. I got work to and you're in my
way there.
Speaker 2: Here's me. I come, you're so sure that the man
we want wasn't in your place last night? I'm not
on trial here.
Speaker 5: You ask me what I know, and I told you
you don't mind.
Speaker 2: I got work to do. You mind moving over there?
Speaker 5: We'd appreciate it if you cooperate, if you want to
know the truth. You're not good for my business here.
Cops never are coming around asking questions. Customers don't like it.
It's no good for business, no good at all.
Speaker 4: A cop was killed last night right outside your front door,
and a half a dozen people say that the guy
who did it was in here drinking.
Speaker 2: I run this place. It's mine, I say, the man
wasn't in here. Still like to know how you're so sure.
I'm getting a little tired of this.
Speaker 5: I don't have an office down at the city. All
the lines around, and I got work to do.
Speaker 2: How about leaving you?
Speaker 5: You want to get your coat? We can talk to
you downtown. Come on now before I call my lawyer.
Oh ahead and call him. Where's your coat? Why do
we have to have trouble? I haven't got any beasts
with you. No trouble, Stevens. We have to get to
the bottom of it, that's all I dad.
Speaker 2: You cooperate. He know the guy was in here last night.
He came in a couple of times. That's all. I
didn't want it to get out. Bad for business. Those
things can't afford it keeps customers away.
Speaker 4: And the man was in here last night, I said, right.
I wasn't trying to cover it for.
Speaker 2: I'm hardly know him.
Speaker 4: I just didn't want it to get out. I got
a right to protect my business. Who is the man,
Harry Talmans? He's a hophead. If he did it, it
probably wasn't his fault. How do you mean he was
hyped up last night? If he was as heroin, he
probably didn't mean his shoe. Where do we find him?
I wouldn't know if this is right, Old Adred. What
the Fairview Hotel?
Speaker 2: Try there?
Speaker 4: Eleven thirty five am New Year's Day, we got in
touch with Barney Luchack and Tom Bryan from Homicide and
they drove downtown to check at the Fairview Hotel for
the suspect. Ben and I finished questioning the owner of
the two twenty eighth club and we went back to
the office.
Speaker 2: Eleven fifty eight am.
Speaker 5: Barney Luchack and Brian got back, Barnie, what have you got?
Speaker 2: Fairview Hotel in South Grant was that the one? Yeah?
Did you find it? Okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Talked to desk clerk tell me Dredgeter that yeah,
he was checked out two months ago.
Speaker 9: No Leeds, you are listening to drag mitt a series
of authentic case histories documented from official files.
Speaker 4: One PM New Year's Day, after we found that the
suspect Harry tell Me to checked out at the Fairview
Hotel months before, Ben and I went back to the
office and ran his name through R and I. The
information given us by Ralph Stevens, the owner of the
two to twenty eighth club, was apparently correct. The record
on tell Mead showed that he was a confirmed user
of narcotics. He served two brief terms for illegal possession
of narcotics and another short term in the county.
Speaker 2: Jail for petty theff. We got out a broadcast and
an APV on tell Me.
Speaker 4: We checked out all his known friends and relatives, the
places that he frequented, hotels, boarding houses that he'd stayed
at No Leeds, with the help of Lieutenant Wallers in
Narcotics Detail, finally found the trail most.
Speaker 2: Likely to lead us to the suspect.
Speaker 5: The peddlers who were suspected of supplying Talmans with narcotics.
Speaker 2: They were kept under a twenty.
Speaker 4: Four hour watch, three days passed, no results. January fourth,
nine am. Then and I went to the funeral.
Speaker 5: And burial services for the murdered officer Jack Conley. Eleven am.
We got back to the office. I don't know why, Joe,
I just don't cot in the funerals. Not a cops sooner. Anyway,
I don't blame you. His wife looked a lot better
than she Yeah, she knew burning up good considering well
s im Bonnie say, Lennie, Yeah, yeah, tell me you
told me about he phoned you, bet Oh is that right?
Speaker 2: You're give him the information?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he wanted to know all about taking the police
department examination. Who's that one of my neighbors boys, A
nice kid wants to get on the force. I told
him to fly at Room five City Hall on any
weekday to make it an application.
Speaker 2: Then had it?
Speaker 5: Fine, Bonnie thing, Well, they got the recruiting campaign going there. Yeah, oh,
this month taking applications from all over. Then I'll get
it onmic side Friday.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Wallers this minute, Okay, heyld s O. N.
Speaker 2: Donaldson, Okay, fine, thanks a lot, blue Wallers and narcotics
might be something. What's that?
Speaker 4: He got a line on one of the mules who
used to push heroin the town. He's got the name
of Donaldson. He's been sounded out. He's ready to talk
to us. This Donaldson was close to down may Well supposedly.
Speaker 5: Yeah you know where down man, Jay, Let's ask him.
Speaker 4: Ben and I left the office and drove to the
address on South Alameda where Donaldson, a friend of the
murder suspect, was supposed to be staying. Turned out to
be a cheap hotel in the skid row district. It
was next to one of the rescue missions down there.
We finally located Donaldson across the street. He was standing
on the sidewalk along with four or five other men.
They were listening to a small Salvation Army band playing
outside one of the beer joints.
Speaker 5: I hardly miss any of these sidewalk meeting Sergeant like them,
band music, even listen to sermons.
Speaker 2: Do me a lot of good. Understand you're not pushing
junk anymore, duneton.
Speaker 8: Is, Do you want to call me big?
Speaker 2: Sergeant?
Speaker 8: Names really John, but everybody calls me big.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 8: I haven't been pushing junk, not for months.
Speaker 5: All through with it? Well, when's the last time that
you saw Harry tell me a couple of weeks ago.
I'm not much for Harry anymore. Like I say, I've
been regular at these sidewalk meetings. Hearing the sermons changes
the way a fella does things.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a man's got to turn good sometime during his life.
Not getting any younger fifty eight, I figure it's time
I start living by the word.
Speaker 2: Say that's nice music, yea. Do you have any idea
what we might find?
Speaker 5: Tell me now, I might have a few ideas on it.
I don't know, say, I guess these are one of
you fellas you smell.
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't bother it does it? I don't
go ahead.
Speaker 5: I don't sure I know the last boarding house Harry
stayed at it. That'll help any placed on a twelve street.
I can give you the address. Well, is he's still there?
You know you don't think he is, No matter of fact,
I'm sure he's not. Wish Harry had come around and
see me, like to get him interested in these sidewalk meetings.
Getting listening to the sermons might help him. Did an
awful lot for me.
Speaker 2: Answer when you say that you saw tell me about
two weeks ago.
Speaker 5: Well, not quite two weeks ago. It was a day
after Christmas. Came down to my hotel and wanted some money.
I couldn't give him any. That's when he told me
he was moving, going to some rooming house up around
the city Hall section up there?
Speaker 2: Did he mention any Andre, not that I recollect. No?
Speaker 8: That sure is nice news, isn't that?
Speaker 2: Well? How about some of his other friends beings? You
think he might be able to help.
Speaker 5: Us, Well, Duke might help you. Harry and old Duke
are still great friends. Duke sees more than I do.
Speaker 2: Where do we find you?
Speaker 5: Why don't you know the Penny Arcade down in South Maine,
right down from the train depot there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's where Duke works. He's a gender there.
Speaker 5: I've been trying to get Duke to come to the
sidewalk meetings too. He sure could stand it, Old.
Speaker 2: Duke, Well, thanks very much, Banks, and it all of.
Speaker 5: A sudden, you know it's glad to help out. And
look at that now, all out of snuff. Say you
couldn't see your way clear, could you? I you go,
mag that's sure, Christian of your sageant, I'll handle this
just like a personal loan. It's all right, I think.
Don't say anything about us talking to you know, not anyone. No, sure,
I won't. You can trust me. Say when you see Harry,
give him a message. What's that you tell him to
come and see. I want them to show up at
these meetings here the sermons. It could change everything. Sad
could give him a new life, new soul, brand new
soul for Harry.
Speaker 2: Think of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we could use one. Three pm, Tuesday, January fourth,
we drove down to the Penny Arcade on South Maine.
Harry tell me his friend Duke wasn't there. The manager
of the place gave us his home address and we
checked it out. Duke wasn't there either. We staked out
at the place for the rest of the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Duke failed to show.
Speaker 4: At six o'clock that night, Barney Luchek and Brian from
Homicide came out and we relieved this. Ben and I
had dinner at Johnny Cochin and then we went back.
Speaker 2: To the office. Seven. I want to grab that Joe, Yeah,
I got it.
Speaker 4: Homicide Friday. Oh yeah, barniey shoot up here. We're talking
about will you tell you anything? Wait a minute, The second,
All right, go ahead, westover apartment three. There was one
seven two seven West Hoover's that right, apartment three.
Speaker 2: What's the pitch? All right, Brian? Thanks by lue Check. Yeah,
what's he got? Harry? Tell me supposed to be at
this address.
Speaker 4: Ben and I got in the car and drove out
to the West Hoover Street address where we met lu
Check and Brian. Seventeen twenty seven was a small two
story apartment house Spanish stuckoe in the style.
Speaker 2: Apartment three was at the rear of the first floor.
Speaker 4: All right, lu Check, you want to pick up Brian
and you cover the bag? All right, Joe, come onday,
let's go. Huh yeah, it's up the stairs, number three. Okay, okay,
no sound inside doors open? Lets say no, it's empty.
H I want to try the bedroom. I'll check the kitchen.
Speaker 2: Show in here all right. Tell me what got a gun,
Joe Rabbit?
Speaker 5: Alright you lock.
Speaker 7: Drop my god, my arm, I got it, jail, all right,
come on on your feet, all right, gemmen backing you
all right, I went whole.
Speaker 5: Steale thirty eight revolved Joe cold special, all right, how
about it?
Speaker 2: Tell me it's mine? What of it? Where's your coat?
I don't know. Why'd you kill him? I don't want
or to that's all. He was a cop? Is that
your only reason? I told you he was a cop?
What's the difference? A big difference, mister, Why I killed him?
It's just one cop? Less? What's the difference? Ask his family,
they'll tell you. The story you have just heard was true,
only the names were changed or protect the innocent.
Speaker 3: On March twenty sixth, the trial was held in Superior Court,
Department eighty sixth, City and County of Los Angeles, State
of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
Harold Wesley Talmadge was found guilty of manslaughter by a
jury trial and was sentenced to the state penitentiary. He
was paroled after serving six years in prison. You have
just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official finds.
Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back, A good Luck at New Years. From the
perspective of police officers for whom it's a very dangerous
and challenging holidays. It's one of those episodes which isn't
going to have a PS say effect. No one's going
to listen to that whose tendency is to get drunk
or high and ruin their lives and say, maybe I
won't do that. But it more helps us emphasize with
the police officers and their struggles which can often turn deadly.
I will say that the close second for the most
loathsome character in this story is the bartender. He's literally
willing to withhold information the police need to find a
killer to protect his reputation. The ironic thing is that,
from all accounts, if you're the type of person who
goes to his bar, you probably aren't going to be
too rattled by it. At least according to him, the
killer was a fairly obvious narcotics user, so nobody who
went there would have been surprised that things turned out
as they did. Well, now we turn to listener comments
and feedback, and we go to YouTube where Prince Adam
comments regarding the big couple, that's how it ends. Well, yeah,
I'm not certain to understand the objection to the ending
of that one. Both the husband and wife were caught
and after trial they were sentenced to prison. That's a
pretty standard dragnet ending, So yeah, I'm not certain to
understand the problem with that one.
Speaker 2: There are a.
Speaker 1: Few dragnet endings which are anticlimactic or puzzling, but ninety
nine plus percent of the time it's pretty well established
how those things end. Then we have a comment on YouTube.
A listener writes, sadly, nothing much has changed in seventy
five or so years, and I guess, particularly in regards
to the Big crime, my answer on whether things have
gotten better or worse is generally yes. And so I
would disagree and say that things have gotten better and worse.
And you we can think of a whole lot of
things when it comes to the crimes in that episode,
where we've gotten better with some of our awareness, and
the type of crime committed in that episode is quite
rare relatively, But at the same time, there are so
many other forms and methods being taken by predatory people
today that arguably it's gotten much worse. So while I
might disagree on the exact formulation in the now, the
comment or may be right. All right, Well, now it's
time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and
I want to go ahead and thank Stephanie currently supporting
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more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Stephanie. Well,
that will do it for this week and next week
we will not have new episodes because of a recording break. However,
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Our regular programming resumes on Memorial Day with the Adventures
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.